Frederick Rupert Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan

Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, was born in 1865. He was educated at Eton College and at the Royal Military College in Sandhurst. He served with the Army in Canada and in the Boer War in South Africa. Retiring from the Army in 1913, he was recalled from reserve at the outbreak of the First World War and in 1915 was appointed the first commander of the Guards Division. In January 1916, Cavan was placed at the head of XIV Corps, a command he held until March 1918, when he was formally appointed Commander-in-Chief of British forces on the Italian front, leading the Italian Tenth Army in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto. He died in 1946.

From the guide to the Frederick Lambart collection, 1911-1916, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)